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Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
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Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
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Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears...
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Ivory Artifact from Bilsk Scythian settlement in Ukraine; Its striking resemblance...
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The first Scorched Earth policy was used by Scythians in the...
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Sarcophagus of legendary Olga of Kyiv, ca. 970 AD
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Valuev Circular banning Ukrainian language in Ukraine was issued on July...
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5,500-year-old Megalithic Kurgan in Ukraine: Origin of spectacular funeral rites of...
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Ukraine to send rockets into space from Australia’s Kimberly?
"Rockets could be blasting into orbit from Derby within five years if the State and Federal governments get behind an ambitious proposal from the...
Ancient gold coin from Bosporan Kingdom in Crimea sells for a...
"The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise...
Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2,...
“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were over the flat...
Ukrainian Donbas is frontline ‘battle lab’ where Russia prepares for war...
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